Solid state vs Disk Dr

Does anyone know which Creative MP3 players use Solid State storage media rather than Disk Dri'ves?I need a unit that uses Solid State memory and has a capacity of about 8-0GB. I've heard that the Zen V plus is this kind of device, can anyone confirm this?Thanks!?

The Zen V Plus models are all flash memory (no moving parts) storage devices. Including the Zen V Plus 8gb unit.

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    Hello all people, excuse my poor english i try to explain my problem.
    1.- I have a Lenovo x301 (type 2776-TMU) with a 128 Gygabites solid state hard disk (Samsung MMCQE28G8MUP-0VAL1)
    2-The sympton is: Lost all data of the hard disk and apears 0 partitions and 0 bytes used.
    3.- I run all type of diagnostics and all  pass OK.
    4. I restore windows,aplications etc.  and all work fine, but in any random time, the hard disk lost all info and another time apear 0 Partition and 0 bytes used.
    5. I try to install, bios, firmware or any update of the lenovo web, and no resolve my problem.
    6.- In a last chance install via dvd a fresh instalation  with oem windows 7, and present the same sympton of point 4.
    7.- I change parameters on the bios setup of the SATA interface (ochi or compatible) with the identical result of the 4 point.
    How you understand, i have a big problem and desesperate, but i not sure if my hard disk is of the problem, or the mother board, any firmware, etc.
    Any have idea in how attack o determine exactly the origen of my problem?
    Thanks and regards all people.
    atn, Miguel Angel Borbolla Bonomi
    Moderator note; e-mail address removed to stop the spambots getting it

    Sounds like a faulty SSD. Return for warranty repair/replacement.
    T61p, T400
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  • Which Solid State Hard Disk for Satellite Pro L670?

    I have a Satellite Pro L670 which I want to configure for presentation purposes and have to re-load the operating system anyway.
    Rather than over-write the existing disk, I thought it would be better to get a second one to fit instead.
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    Has anyone else fitted a solid state hard disk to a Satellite Pro?
    For budget reasons I am planning to go for a 120GB capacity which will be enough.
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  • Lightroom and solid state hard disks

    I'm looking to speed up Lightroom as much as possible within reason (version 3 on a Mac) and one possibility that occurred to me is to put Lightroom and it's catalog on a somewhat smaller 80-120 GB (and therefore less expensive) solid state hard disk. I'm wondering if Lightroom interacts with the system enough that I wouldn't gain much? I would think that I would get a pretty good speed bump...

    Pete Marshall says:
    SSD's are great for the OS and apps. They may not be so good for the catalog itself as write speeds are not good. If I was you I would get a small SSD to use as the boot drive and put the catalog and files on seprate fast traditional hard drives.
    Write and read speed of currently available SSDs blow away hard disk drives in any configuration. Look here:
    http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/high_end_drives.html
    SSDs are more expensive per GB than HDDs, but you don't need a large 1TB+ drive to increase system performance! I work with Intel who is one of the top SSD manufacturers and R&D companies. Intel is working with Micron on joint program to reduce cost of SSDs. Intel just announced their new SSD 510 series:
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    Sequential Read: Up to 500 MB/s
    Sequential Write: Up to 315 MB/s
    — 120 GB:
    Sequential Read: Up to 450 MB/s
    Sequential Write: Up to 210 MB/s
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    WD Caviar Black
    Samsung HD103UJ
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    232.6
    204.5
    Random Access (ms)
    12.1
    13.7
    Average Read (MB/s)
    89.5
    96.8
    Average Write (MB/s)
    79.9
    84.4
    I have no experience running LR on SSD, but putting your LR catalog, RAW cache, and preview files on an SSD should provide a real performance boost.

  • ITunes and Solid State (System) Disks - SSD's

    I suspect there are very few of you out there (if any) that own a SSD that you are using as a System Disk. The reason I mention this is that all the lower cost MLC versions of the products have been found to have problems with writing many small records in a short space of time and in some cases cause an effect called stuttering (simply Google "stutter ssd"). I have discovered that iTunes is hurt severely by this problem to the extent that often the system will freeze for 30 seconds to a minute during syncs or downloads. One of the manufacturers has a work-around but for the moment it's probably wise to sit back and wait for the next generation products to appear on the market before reaching into your pocket.
    On the positive side, a working SSD is fantastic for a home theatre system. You don't hear a thing!
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    Pete Marshall says:
    SSD's are great for the OS and apps. They may not be so good for the catalog itself as write speeds are not good. If I was you I would get a small SSD to use as the boot drive and put the catalog and files on seprate fast traditional hard drives.
    Write and read speed of currently available SSDs blow away hard disk drives in any configuration. Look here:
    http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/high_end_drives.html
    SSDs are more expensive per GB than HDDs, but you don't need a large 1TB+ drive to increase system performance! I work with Intel who is one of the top SSD manufacturers and R&D companies. Intel is working with Micron on joint program to reduce cost of SSDs. Intel just announced their new SSD 510 series:
    Intel SSD 510 Specification
    SATA 6Gb/s Sustained Bandwidth Performance
    (Iometer* Queue Depth 32)
    — 250 GB:
    Sequential Read: Up to 500 MB/s
    Sequential Write: Up to 315 MB/s
    — 120 GB:
    Sequential Read: Up to 450 MB/s
    Sequential Write: Up to 210 MB/s
    Compared to a high performance HDD:
    WD Caviar Black
    Samsung HD103UJ
    HDTach
    Burst (MB/s)
    232.6
    204.5
    Random Access (ms)
    12.1
    13.7
    Average Read (MB/s)
    89.5
    96.8
    Average Write (MB/s)
    79.9
    84.4
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  • Solid State Disk Drive not usable

    I installed a Solid State SATA Disk on my SUN Ultra45 yesterday and I can not get it to work!
    The disk showes up using the format command and the analyze command ran with out showing any errors, however I can not label the disk because it gives me an error.
    The disk is reported as:
    2. c1t2d0 <ATA-SuperTalentTec- cyl 15612 alt 2 hd 16 sec 128>
    /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@9/pci@0/scsi@1/sd@2,0
    verify gave the following:
    format> verify
    Warning: Could not read primary label.
    Warning: Check the current partitioning and 'label' the disk or use the
    'backup' command.
    Backup label contents:
    Volume name = < >
    ascii name = <ATA-SuperTalentTec- cyl 15612 alt 2 hd 16 sec 128>
    pcyl = 15614
    ncyl = 15612
    acyl = 2
    nhead = 16
    nsect = 128
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    0 root wm 0 - 127 128.00MB (128/0/0) 262144
    1 swap wu 128 - 255 128.00MB (128/0/0) 262144
    2 backup wu 0 - 15611 15.25GB (15612/0/0) 31973376
    3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
    4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
    5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
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    7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
    When I tried to mount it I got:
    mount: I/O error
    mount: Cannot mount /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s6
    I got the following response from prtvtoc:
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    prtvtoc: /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0s0: Unable to read Disk geometry errno = 0x5
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    Thanks in advance,
    Roger

    Did you ever figure out the issue? I'm having a similar issue.

  • HP Mini 1000 - Solid State HD Constantly Thrashing - Slowing System Down

    I recently bought an HP Mini 1000 (the actual model number is the 1100 CTO).  It came with the HP flavor of Linux.  I put the Windows 7 RC on it, as several others have, and noticed incredibly poor performance with the 32GB solid state hard disk.
    The symptoms are whenever the disk starts to write, the system is completely unresponsive.  I cannot scroll down on browser windows, I cannot launch new processes, I cannot switch tabs, keyboard input is not recognized (until the hard disk stops writing).  This happens way too frequently, pretty much any time I load a web browser page or do anything on the system.  The hard drive thrashes about 80% of the time that I'm using it.
    I have the upgraded 2GB of memory, so I'm not sure why there are so many disk writes going on.  I am also not sure why disk writes are taking so long to complete... I thought disk speed was supposed to be faster on a solid-state drive.
    I've done numerous things to improve performance:  ensuring superfetch and all indexing operations are disabled, turned off the page file,  etc.  However I still cannot get the system to perform to a point where it is usable, and am seriously considering sending it back and having the regular disk put in it.
    Is there anything I can do? 

    XP Home SP3 (32-bit).  Machine is still basically a fresh install, essentially as shipped, with Windows and Norton patches. Swap file is off since it seems like a bad idea for SSD-based systems in general.  I also eased some of the graphics settings (like displaying window contents when moving windows) since that's more eye candy than necessary.
    HP's tech suggested checking for bad blocks.  Doesn't seem to have helped.  My intention in getting the machine was to configure a dual-boot with a yet-to-be-determined linux distro (I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 on the dying P3 laptop I'm using to write this -- so, yes, I'm finding a 2001 vintage consumer-grade laptop preferable to our new Mini 1000s...).
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    I wonder if these SSDs have the notorious jmicron controller.  I'm not sure how to check.  Supposedly if you have XP professional or embedded you can use a module called Enhanced Write Filtering (EWF) as a sort of buffer.  It isn't shown in the Windows XP Home help menu, though, so it might not be included.

  • Solid-state hard drive questions....

    Hi, I'm going to get a new Macbook Pro soon to replace my archaic 17" wobbley screened Powerbook and I'm having some dilemmas about picking the hard drive. So heres a few solid-state questions I was hoping you could answer:
    How much faster is solid state than disk (disc?), for example I run Flash and Photoshop alot. If a go for 8gb of ram and 3.somthing processor, will there be a noticeable difference in the speed of these apps opening/running if the hard drive is solid state?
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    While I can't comment on the speed I can comment on changing the internal drive. In short it's a 10-15 minute process. My recommendation would be to start with a traditional HD and see if it's performance is adequate before considering an upgrade. If not as mentioned the upgrade is extremely easy. In fact here is a video that shows it.

  • How do I copy my operating system to a solid state drive and make it the disk I boot from?

    How do I copy my operating system to a solid state drive and make it the disc I boot from?

    Where is your operating system now? Basically, you clone it from wherever it is now to the SSD:
    Clone Lion/Mountain Lion using Restore Option of Disk Utility
    Boot to the Recovery HD:
    Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
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    Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
    Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
    Destination means the SSD. Source means the drive now holding OS X.

  • Can I install a solid state disk in my Mac Pro Early 2009?

    Can I install a solid state disk drive in my Mac Pro Early 2009? Is there an adaptor?

    see here
    http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-InstallingSSD.html

  • My HP Pavilion Notebook can support a solid-state drive (SSD) (also known as a solid-state disk)

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  • HT1661 Problems mounting Imac in target disk mode on retina laptop with a solid state drive as host

    I'm trying to use an Imac in target disk mode to copy files from it to a new retina display laptop with a solid state drive, but the target drive will not mount even tho it does start in target disk mode. I have all the proper firewire connection. The Imac will not respond for more than a few minutes before crashing when started from its own system. I would like to salvage a few files from it before I perform a clean install of the system.
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  • Solid state disk

    Hi All,
    I recently have started using a solid-state drive (SSD) in my laptop, and it really flies (Intel X-25).
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    There is no problem with the disk, random reads and writes are exceptional on this SSD, and have not noticed this slowdown with any other applications. Any idea what is going on here?
    Also, to muddy the situation, I am using this on Windows 7. Reading from a USB hard-drive seems to work as normal, so I figure its not the OS.
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    CLA

    Brad,
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    Slightly more weird, if I save the dataset once it has loaded (to compact the index file), then the subsequent loads are amazingly quick. I know you are probably thinking its just cached in memory (I have seen this before with a traditional hard disk), but the file loads in about 5 seconds from a cold-boot!
    SSDs have very very good random read speeds, so even if the file was highly fragmented it should still be quite quick.
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    I will never get permission to post the file unfortunately...
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    Message Edited by nrp on 12-22-2009 09:59 PM
    nrp
    CLA

  • Disk Drive Full. Whats the best way to transfer operating system to larger non solid state hard drive .

    Heres the Lowdown,
    I have a Desktop that has a 250 G Solid state hard drive , and a secondary 750 G Hard drive.
    My OS is installed on the solid state , and also a lot of my audio software which needs to also be on the same disk drive as the operating system ;
    Problem is I've run out of room and continually get DISK FULL error messages , which stop me from doing any real time audio tracking and recording.
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    Will I have to reinstall all previous versions of software if I do this?
    Will The processing slow down if the OS is run on the Standard drive rather than the Solid State drive ?
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    Any advice would be much appreciated.

    Carbon Copy Cloner (1 Month Demo with full capabilities).  Because CCC also has the ability to transfer your Recovery Partition
    SuperDuper (Free for a full clone).  Recovery partition will not be transferred
    Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility -> Restore (from SSD to 750 hard disk).  Recovery partition will not be transferred.
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  • Database performance on Solid state disks

    Folks,
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    Dumb question-- is your database I/O bound? Or is it CPU bound? Or does it spend a lot of time reading data that has been cached in memory?
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